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Programs and Affiliates

Children’s Health Fund (CHF) develops and supports a National Network of 22 programs and two affiliates in 16 different states and the District of Columbia. Seventeen of the programs/affiliates are based at academic medical centers, the other seven at Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Programs and Affiliates

Children’s Health Fund (CHF) develops and supports a National Network of 22 programs and two affiliates in 16 different states and the District of Columbia. Seventeen of the programs/affiliates are based at academic medical centers, the other seven at Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Programs provide comprehensive health care through an enhanced medical home model to medically underserved children. This model integrates intensive primary care, mental health and oral health services through innovative practices, such as the use of mobile clinics, school-based clinics and telehealth.

The 22 programs and 2 affiliates provide services at more than 200 different sites, including those served by nearly 50 mobile clinics, as well as fixed site and school clinics. The majority (> 85%) of the sites serve solely pediatric (birth – 24) populations with the others providing family care.

Children’s Health Fund is committed to providing health care to the children who need it most. Our innovative programs reach out to children in their neighborhoods and at school, helping to ensure that they're healthy and ready to succeed.

Children’s Health Fund is committed to providing health care to the children who need it most. Our innovative programs reach out to children in their neighborhoods and at school, helping to ensure that they're healthy and ready to succeed.

Our Beginnings

Paul Simon and Irwin Redlener, MD founded Children's Health Fund in 1987 after touring the Martinique Hotel, a shelter for homeless families in New York City, and witnessing the conditions under which homeless children lived. The New York Children's Health Project launched with one "big blue bus," a state-of-the-art mobile medical clinic that would bring care directly to those children with the least access.

Expanding Nationally

Over the years, Children's Health Fund has replicated this approach across the country. Today, the National Network provides care through 25 innovative pediatric care programs and affiliates that serve children in poor rural and urban communities across the country. Each program is affiliated with a major teaching hospital or community health center, and reaches out to children in federally designated health professional shortage areas. This network has cared for over 350,000 children in some of the most disadvantaged rural and urban communities in the nation.

Advocacy and Partnership

Children's Health Fund has also campaigned in support of expanding health insurance coverage for low-income children, as well as public health programs that provide a critical safety net for millions of medically underserved children. Children's Health Fund has worked in partnership with the White House and Congress to promote access to health care and solutions for homelessness, asthma, poor nutrition and obesity. In 1994, Children's Health Fund launched Kids First, Kids Now!, a public education and advocacy campaign that focused national attention on the need for a true health care safety net for all of America’s children. Kids First, Kids Now! played a key role in the national advocacy effort that resulted in the passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the most important advance in child health care access since the inception of Medicaid in 1965.

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